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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1911
Page
2
The report details a series of intimate events including an art club meeting with German study, a kitchen themed supper with Mrs Wood, and a bridge party. It notes prize awards, decorations with shamrocks, and hostess hospitality, plus a Young Peoples Baptist Union social where members shared how they earned a dollar.
Thursday evening Mr and Mrs C E Vermilyea entertained the Good Times club in honor of Mr and Mrs Thos Morton newly arrived in the city. The members enjoyed meeting Lane and sharing sociable moments.
Alexandria reports a busy Friday night with the Christian Endeavor at the Manse and the Epworth League at W C McCaster's home, welcoming back Charles and Mable McMasters from the west. Saturday brings a Pretty Party on Court Street for Miss Gladys Smith, with supper and lively games. The German class, taught by Miss Hazel Gingles, enjoyed a study night at her home. The Art Club gathered at Mrs Percy Smith's to study under Miss Blaisdell. District educators met at the opera house with a full program including piano solos, talks on school needs and taxation, and a keynote address by C G Lawrence. The Gingles home hosted a youth gathering with games and refreshments, and Dr Cox's Marbed Wire Liniment advertises relief for wounds and pain.
Mrs. C. S. Bobb hosted a parcel shower for Miss Alicea Norton at her Fourth Avenue East and Davison Street home. About twenty friends attended and contributed chapters to a life story for the honoree while assembling useful home items. Light refreshments were served.
A compilation of numerous property transfers recorded by The Mitchell Abstract, Loan & Trust Company. Listings show transferring parties, parcel designations like SW 1-4 28-103-60 and sums ranging from 160 to 19 680, including vendors such as I. W. Seaman and Hagedorn, with buyers including William Olmstead, Charles Farrell, and Conrad Schurz among others. Also notes a household remedy advertisement for Dr Cox s Barbed Wire Liniment.
Anthony Meisch a Bowdle South Dakota butcher arrived in New York and obtained Marie Branner a 19 year old Viennese immigrant's release to marry her. They secured a marriage license at city hall and wed at the Leo House chapel officiated by Reverend Mr Nigseln. The couple plans to return to South Dakota after a brief stay.
Governor Vessey will appoint J. E. Truran as executive accountant for state departments in a new position created by the last legislature. Truran has long served as bookkeeper and deputy in the state land department.
Michael Smith, 27, a bartender at the Antlers saloon in Aberdeen South Dakota, attempted suicide by shooting three times at his head as a partly loaded revolver fired empty. His employer restrained him after a fourth try deflected the bullet into a mirror. Smith was jailed and again tried to kill himself in custody. He is married but separated from his wife.
At a State Corn Show meeting in this city, O S Jones of a Sioux Falls seed firm accused officers of favoritism in prize awarding. The resolutions committee proposed class changes to separate exhibitors by experience, and the plan was adopted. The Dakota Farmer later printed a critical ad, prompting apologies and letters from association officers and others detailing the true facts.
Sinal South Dakota Lima postmaster N O Borsvold plans to resign after failing to secure additional rural route deliveries from the Sina postal office. He has argued for the routes to boost workload but has met with no success.
Parker, S. D. residents discuss the post office appointment. A. M. Fisher seeks the job, backed by the Republican committee, the commercial club, and the post office patrons. The senate rejected C. F. Hackett who held the office briefly, with J. D. Cotton having served under a recess appointment for over three years.
The South Dakota state board of railroad commissioners finished a telephone rates hearing in Aberdeen and plan to hold hearings in other towns before issuing a decision. Much evidence covered equipment and maintenance costs and showed Dakota Central Telephone's rates are lower than other carriers for similar service.
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